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Welcome, sewing pattern enthusiasts! The Fashion Belle operation will be moving to the southern United States this summer. It is an exciting but busy time. Please keep checking back for news on when our own patterns will be in print (soon after our move, hopefully!), and also use the tabs above to explore reviews of hundreds of other companies that provide modest clothing and sewing patterns.

Experience working in the fashion industry can be a valuable stepping stone toward starting your own business producing modest apparel. Even with no prior experience, an entrepreneur's knowledge of the target market is the first key to success. Most small entrepreneurs are part of the group they target, allowing them to innately gravitate toward correct product and marketing choices. Small businesses must aim for a target market with laser accuracy in order to compete with large brands that offer generic styling.

In the process of searching for a theme for the first Fashion Belle site in 2010, Dries Buytaert's company Acquia emerged at the top with its free provision of the Acquia Prosper Theme developed by Fusion Drupal Themes. The original Fashion Belle website was live until 2011 with the Fusion Acquia Prosper Theme for Drupal 6 (see screenshot at right). Finding the lines of code that controlled various elements took days of work.